Take immigration. As equatorial regions grow hotter and drier, climate-driven migration will accelerate. Pressures at the southern border, already a defining political issue, will intensify as millions are pushed north by forces no wall can stop.<\/p>\n
Or look at rural and agricultural economies. The United States is getting hotter, drier, and more volatile. Across much of the Midwest and South, the crops that anchor red-state economies\u2014corn, soy, wheat, and cotton\u2014are already experiencing regional yield losses from intensifying heat<\/a> and drought<\/a>. At the same time, the administration\u2019s<\/a> war<\/a> on clean energy has stalled billions of dollars in investment in the very states that stood to benefit most. In 2025 alone<\/a>, more than 24,000 jobs and nearly $20 billion in clean\u2011energy projects in Republican districts were canceled or abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take immigration. As equatorial regions grow hotter and drier, climate-driven migration will accelerate. Pressures at the southern border,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":683117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[10109,746,80,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-683116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116295488092215494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}